Be sure to include your name, daytime phone number, address, name and phone number of legal next-of-kin, method of payment, and the name of the funeral home/crematory to contact for verification of death.

The former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, U.S. energy secretary and New Mexico governor will be honored May 11 at the Muehlebach Tower of the Kansas City Marriott Downtown. Richardson’s work “to pursue peaceful solutions and better relations among all nations of the world, as well as to implement sustainable energy policies, has been extraordinary,” said Karl Zobrist, Truman Good Neighbor Foundation president.

David Petraeus, the former CIA director and top Army general whose affair with his biographer brought down what many considered a bright political future, has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified materials.

Given anywhere else, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech Tuesday wouldn’t have caused such a ruckus. But a foreign leader denouncing President Barack Obama’s policy from within the grand hall of American democracy upended nearly two centuries of tradition.

In a speech that stirred political controversy in two countries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Congress on Tuesday that negotiations underway between Iran and the United States would “all but guarantee” that Tehran would get nuclear weapons, a step he said the world must avoid at all costs.

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“I have not ruled anything out,” former Congressman Todd Akin says about the possibility of challenging incumbent Roy Blunt in the 2016 GOP Senate primary. Talk about a headache for the freshman Missouri senator, the re-emergence of Akin would be all that — and more.

The U.S. senator telephoned lawmakers promoting a bill to let the governor appoint judges to the Kansas Supreme Court with the consent of the state Senate. The measure is a priority of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.

Taser International, the stun-gun maker emerging as a leading supplier of body cameras for police, has cultivated financial ties to police chiefs whose departments have bought the recording devices, raising a host of conflict-of-interest questions.

The Obama administration is considering banning a type of ammunition used in one of the most popular types of rifles because it says the bullets can pierce a police officer’s protective vest when fired from a handgun.

A year after a flare-up over a sex education poster in the Shawnee Mission School District, the issue still reverbrates in the halls of the Kansas capitol as lawmakers push bills aimed at giving parents more control over what is taught in the classroom and protecting children from pornography.

Using military service for political persuasion has been common for generations. Jason Kander of Missouri is expected to use the tool against Sen. Roy Blunt, who never served in the armed forces, particularly if the race centers on foreign policy. Yet operatives in both parties say military service is not enough, by itself, to elect Kander or any other candidate in 2016.

After his six years in office, we know President Barack Obama is Mr. Spock: detached, information-driven and undoubtedly big-eared. For the last six years, Republicans have taken Capt. James T. Kirk as their model: rash, emotional, passionate. But the best way forward, “Star Trek” told us, is to use the head and the heart.

Besides the usual enrollment site in Lenexa, frequent travelers can sign up for the Transportation Security Administration’s precheck program March 9 through 13 at Kansas City International Airport. Precheck allows travelers to go through special lanes and avoid removing their shoes and some other inconveniences of the usual screening process.

The Justice Department has nearly completed a highly critical report accusing the police in Ferguson, Mo., of making discriminatory traffic stops of African-Americans that created years of racial animosity before an officer shot a black teenager leading up to an officer’s shooting of a black teenager last summer, law enforcement officials said.

Kansas City’s downtown streetcar construction process is nearly 50 percent complete and should be finished by this fall. But then the vehicles will undergo months of testing before passengers are expected to start riding in the first few months of 2016.

The House on Tuesday passed a bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year, averting a partial shutdown of the agency after weeks of uncertainty, but inflaming conservative lawmakers.

Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, State Department officials said, and may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency’s record.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi politely stood and clapped when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered the House chamber for his long-awaited, and highly controversial, speech to Congress. The longer he spoke, the less enthusiastic she got.

The fight to legalize mixed martial arts in New York — the last state to prohibit cage matches with small gloves — resumed Tuesday with legislation advancing out of committee and some lawmakers advocating a special fund for brain-damaged fighters.